So basically, the ring isn't falling to the bottom, they're just changing places with the ring below in sequence all the way to the bottom since they're in pairs and the 3rd ring in the link is swapping places so it looks like it's falling. Nicely done.

@martynagr3961

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it would be more clear if the rings were a different color.

@tylerkropf9522

2 жыл бұрын

It's a CHAIN reaction!

@Shadowmare4575

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's the same thing I thought too.

@Creaford

2 жыл бұрын

The Ring *Lore*

@FedeG86

2 жыл бұрын

@@martynagr3961 yes but in consequence it loose the magic. 🤷🏻‍♂️😁

James, this is so random, yet so fascinating. Loved the segment with the wifey trying to figure it out as well, because she logically went through the steps a lot of us would have done.

@QuestionTheAnswers

2 жыл бұрын

I see some sort of perpetual motion device or motor somehow.. what if the rings were grabbed and dropped in succession, ..?

@sanchitsharma3260

2 жыл бұрын

@@QuestionTheAnswers well then successively grabbing and dropping the rings require energy, hence you are putting some energy into the system. Hence no perpetual motion and no "free energy".

@QuestionTheAnswers

2 жыл бұрын

@@sanchitsharma3260 True. Maybe this could be a part, in connection with other parts to other devices, and in conjunction with those, it can perform some sort of viable role in a more complex device.. leading up to one day being a key position in solving the world's energy needs.. maybe.. perhaps not as well though 😅

This is a good way to describe how electrons really work, and explains why water doesn't really move along with waves, etc.

@hmhms8934

2 жыл бұрын

fr

@Bhatakti_Hawas

2 жыл бұрын

True dat

It's magic. You will NEVER change my mind!

@armaan4770

2 жыл бұрын

Yes its clearly magic without a doubt 🙂 we need to protect magic by putting a petition against calling magic other things like science/chemistry physics 🙃🙂

It's like a travelling wave, where there is no actual matter being transported.

@mariadefatimajesusdorea3141

Жыл бұрын

Lava

My grandma had a necklace that looked very similar 😂 it was gold color though...

Paint every other ring a contrasting color to the one next to it. Then you can follow it easier with the eyes.

You can clearly see that he had fun doing this

Hey brother. I just wanted to tell you. I've been subscribed for quite some time. I love your videos. So do millions. But I just showed a compilation of your coolest experiments to my six year old daughter. She suggested Galaxy roses for mother's day gifts for my mom and grandma. Thanks for that, btw! BUT SPECIFICALLY, I wanted to thank you for helping to spark my little girls fascination with science and inspiring her creativity like no "kid plays with supersatatisfying toy video ever could. You don't know what wonders you unlock with your killer vids. Keep them coming!

I never heard about these rings! You show us a crap ton of new things dude!

I saw this written up in Scientific American magazine in 1956 & independently discovered the method of assembling it. I refer to the process of building it as "growing DNA". I made these from coat hanger wire coiled around a dowel & slit with a hacksaw. I made a large one from the hubs from old disk drives. It is important to get the proportions (outside diameter of ring to the cross-section diameter) correct or the tension in a long chain will cause the movement to jam. The cross-section of the rings must be circular.

I used to have the Jacob's ladder device so I realized that the rings were a version of the same effect.

@draketungsten74

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, 2 minutes in I guessed it was topologically the same as a Jacob's ladder.

@MrT------5743

2 жыл бұрын

yep same. We still have one of the Jacob's ladder.

When you were showing your wife, and she was trying to figure it out, my brain finally fully comprehended what it was seeing and I started to notice that it was multiple shifting rings as apposed to one falling ring. As soon as I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it. I didn’t have to wait long to have my suspicions confirmed. Good video, the illusion almost had me!

I've always been interested in learning how magic works.

@erstwhilegrubstake

2 жыл бұрын

So that would be the science of ... magic?

@jer103

2 жыл бұрын

More using the scientific method of understanding magic.

@MrT------5743

2 жыл бұрын

@@jer103 Hint, magic isn't real. There is only illusions or other physical interactions that is unknown to the audience but so well known to the performer he can hide what may give away the secret.

@westonding8953

2 жыл бұрын

@@jer103 It's not too difficult to learn. You have to have keen eyes and figure out where to look.

@westonding8953

2 жыл бұрын

@@erstwhilegrubstake Magic is a science in itself. I define it as the science of "breaking" the familiar laws and properties of science and producing the best performance with it.

I remember seeing this and making it on KZread like 10 years ago!

Made one of these 25 years ago in a blacksmith class and still got it. Made mine of 5mm thick bars about 5cm wide rings and forged welded them together.

You should make more video is on revealing how magician do some stuff especially when chemistry or physics is involved!

@westonding8953

2 жыл бұрын

I like this idea! That being said, there are often many ways to do a trick, even chemical and physics tricks. There are already many channels that do reveals already.

@scriptdevil253

2 жыл бұрын

Ancient Alchemists would feel proud .

There's a magicians move with the Chinese linking rings that essentially does the same thing. You have to switch rings in your hand as you pretend to move it down the links, but it looks like it's real.

@westonding8953

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It's a sleight you have to practice. Often the first move of the linking rings trick!

Excellent video as always. Definitely have to try this. Have a great day everyone. 🙂

I think it would be really interesting to explain some of the math behind how it's cascading. It seems a little bit like knot theory!

@ItIsYouAreNotYour

2 жыл бұрын

I rather knot know the secret or magic level required. I'm assuming around level 9-10 you get manipulation spell.

@russellzauner

2 жыл бұрын

The math models could be tuned to make a chain that has a specific link or links that have different functions in control of the motion of the entire assembly, which should have useful applications in soft robotics.

@russellzauner

2 жыл бұрын

@@ItIsYouAreNotYour ​ If you notice the rings are not only interlocked but consistently staggered in the same manner. That's why it matters which side you grab it from. What would be magical is making it happen no matter which side ring was grabbed while dangling it from a single ring. But this could be used for a lot of applications where you want to move things in a controlled manner without using any or much power.

@mariamaalouf2138

2 жыл бұрын

It certainly is! This is a trick that I think heavily lies on the “valence” of each ring. “valence” is a fancy word we use in graph theory to indicate the number of rings each single ring is connected to. For example: if ring A is linked to ring B, C, and D, we say that ring A has valence 3 (it is connected to 3 other rings). When we look at this chain, it seems like the very first ring is linked to 2 rings (the 2 that are right under it, let’s call each of these sets of 2 “double rings”), then each ring corresponding to a double ring seems to be linked to all rings that are over and under it. So the first set of double rings would have valence 3, since they are linked to a single ring at the very top and to 2 rings at the bottom (second set of double rings). Then all of the double rings in between seem to have valence 4 (linked to double rings directly atop and under them). The final set of double rings has valence 3 like the first set (it’s the same situation but reversed since we have a single ring at the very bottom). Finally, the single ring at the bottom has valence 2. I think that’s what’s tricky! Even after finding out how all the rings are being connected, it is hard to find the true valence of each ring in the chain, because in reality, the double rings in the middle actually do NOT have valence 4! Even the first and last set of double rings don’t have valence 3!

@eideticex

2 жыл бұрын

It's really just a delay line that can't hold it's state. When you shuffle the top rings, it flips every bit along the sequence. The motion we're seeing is the rising and falling edge of that pulse.

i love the really scientific "i'll prove to you this is real with my wife's reaction"

@rafetizer

2 жыл бұрын

It will soon be peer-reviewed by the rest of the scientific community's wives.

@The_Original_Brad_Miller

2 жыл бұрын

@Brandon Cueto.... My wife got it right off...... I think I need to have her re-calibrated.

Basically the top ring moves to the next layer then the right or the left ring moves to the next layer and then the top layer has one ring again instead of two

@dogwalker666

2 жыл бұрын

Yes exactly

@crazkurtz

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong! Magic

@mrsaraf3459

2 жыл бұрын

I think the ring going through 2 rings moves down, pushing the next ring doing through 2 rings.

Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to show us how to make it! I knew what the illusion was going to be right away, but did not expect it to be so intricate!

One of my favorite educational videos! Thank you

Wow, I was just gifted a toy that was from Mexico that has the same concept as this, but it's small slabs of wood instead of rings, that are all attached together with ribbon thingys (I don't remember what they're called). It works exactly like this but you can start the tumbling from any part of it.

@karlm9584

2 жыл бұрын

We used to make these when i was a kid and sell them at the markets. They're really easy to make.

@NoLongerBreathedIn

2 жыл бұрын

Jacob’s ladder

Thanks for showing how this works! (and how to make one of your own)

very beautifully explained. Loved it!!

Thanks for showing us how this trick works!

I’m surprised you don’t have 10 times the followers on here. One of the coolest channels on KZread 👍🏻 Keep them coming

@MammaOVlogs

2 жыл бұрын

agreed

My grandma just brought back a wooden toy from her trip that has the same gimmick. I’d explain it as being double jointed. Well time to watch the video. (I was playing with it for a while after she showed it to me.) now it’s time to watch.

If you made a chain 50' long and went to your favorite multistory car park, could you get multiple rings falling at once? That would be cool to see! 3, 4 or 5 rings dancing down the chain...

Thank you again for showing me something I didn't know I needed

Awesome! :) As someone who has made chainmail this was very obvious to me. ;)

Simply amazing 😄😄😄

. . . and just like that i learned something cool and new today! Thank you. You guys are the best 🤟🏼

I start my day with your videos.thank you

I just read about this a few days ago, and there were hardly any videos about it on KZread, so it's crazy to see this uploaded, ha

On first viewing, i knew exactly how it worked. But when you got to making it, that's where my mind couldn't comprehend it anymore.

😧satisfying.. I will do me one of those.. Thank You❣️👏🏼☺️

I love the Action Lab channel so much!

The individual rings might not travel from top to bottom, but the energy wave does, much like sound or light.

🗣“2022 Is My Year, My Music Will Be Heard”🙏🏽

I knew immediately as I saw it how it worked. I used to play with the wooden version as a kid.

I've got a jacobs ladder. Had it since i was a kid and its awesome.

Oh I love this! Can you make more videos like this?

This is amazing!!!

This concept seems analogous to waves and how the matter does not travel in a wave. Only the energy does. It also reminds me of photons where the photon is emitted per atom it “enters”.

You unblocked a childhood memory when you showed the Jacob's ladder toy. I completely forgot about those!

Great illusion! I am certainy going to make one and surprise my friends.

Very cool video as always.

This channel teaches me so much 💯 and also inspires me to keep going and making better videos .. love it thanks 💯🔥

@Fipsh

2 жыл бұрын

Stop your bot-like personality

@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff

2 жыл бұрын

Your comment is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to get people to visit your channel.

I needed this too let’s go

way cool, great fun for the Grandkids

You're the only scientific channel other than the Backyard Scientist and NileRed that manages to make science interesting. I'm studying to be a veterinarian so it's not that science is boring, it's just exhausting when you're learning so much... Which is why I don't watch science stuff and reserve my science tolerance for my 8 years of med school and veterinary classes I gotta go through. But your vids are not super complex and they're just interesting.

This is my son's favorite channel. !!

A trip down memory lane, as we had such a chain when I was a kid. Maybe it even exists in a box in my parents' cellar.

How awesome is this guy 🤯

That was good. I had the answer right away

this was sold as a toy like ~20 years ago 🤣

@terrypussypower

2 жыл бұрын

“~20 years ago”?? More like ~100 years ago!

I some how figured it out the first time I saw it

I was just going to say I had a similar wood toy before you mentioned Jacob's ladder. lol

When i was a kid we used to make similar things from wooden cards and ribbon.

So basically, the ring isn't falling to the bottom, they're just changing places with the ring below in sequence all the way to the bottom. It's like the LED strips in which an led at the back turns off and the one in the front turns on and it looks like the light is moving, Nice one!

Thats is pretty cool.

Me having ADD watching the magic of the creation of the rings going NOPE. But watching the rings fall down going YAY!

It would be much more interesting were some of the ring to be visually quite different. I'm tempted to get a bunch of key rings and have some fun.

I want one of those.

Interesting variation of the jacobs ladder

This could be used for education of project managers. See how to create the illusion of progress! I had such a thing as a kid. It was in two colours so it was quite obvious what was happening.

This is so cool 😱🤗👍

That's also a flourish linking ring performers use.

Half the magicians in Vegas, right now: "He's become too dangerous."

I already understand it at my first watch because if you hold the ring below the ring in the top will go at the 2nd then it will react like a domino

I literally guessed it was like a Jacob's ladder early on

What is the clearest material, more clear then glass?

Today I took a precalc honers test and many of my classmates were getting up to use the tissues. I also had a runny nose. Can you please explain this? Why does this happen and can I stop this?

Saw this for the first time. Amazed.

i just love your scientific content

Basic chain motion

Good to see another The Action Lab video made my day!

imagine if jotaro has these on his gakuran that would be a pretty nice touch

I now have 50 rings on order. We'll soon discover how difficult it is to assemble the darn thing in the first place.

@ooooneeee

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck 🙂.

YOOO I DID NOT EVEN THINK FOR A SECOND IT COULD BE A CAMERA TRICK YOU DID NOT HAVE TO CLEAR THAT UP😭😭

I have this science toy. I got it 25 years ago at a magic shop. My set is made of brass rings.

Why is there no link to Amazon for both the rings and Jacobs ladder?

Did you break you watch's glass? Im hurting just looking at it.

This feels like it might be somehow related to the Borromean rings.

Wooow 🤩

I heard about jacobbes ladder before, and even have one, The Terrific Tumbling Rings of Antiquity sounds much cooler xD

Great video and your garage is nicely finished!

I just found a new toy my son would LOVE.... LoL

wow, very interesting :)

That’s an interesting chain reaction

can you explain the science behind when i clean my pizza cutter with the faucet 'spray mode' resulting in the blade spinning. sometimes the pizza cutter is totally clean and ill still be standing there just spraying it watching it spin. is this simply friction? what force is behind this niche past-time.

your are very cool and the rings

i'm gonna expand this, and make jewelry ot of it :))

Huh, if only my wedding ring knew the same trick

Scents are so permeable, I would like to see the science or a science experiment example regarding how scents work and how they can be neutralized 🌷🤔

3:07 it's not the whole ring that it going from top to bottom it's just the energy the ring just goes 1 step down similar to sound waves , stadium wave by spectators , wave in a string etc.

I realized the answer right way. What a great trick, now I have to make one myself!